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October 11, 2021
Why Many Mainstream Movies Are Boring
Mainstream, Hollywood films are too often boring. They pummel us with explosions and car chases or tug desperately at our heartstrings with sentimentality and romance, […]
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October 11, 2021
The “Nothing But A Camera And Costume” Genre
You would need a pretty big dumpster to accommodate all the films that have been made with nothing but a camera and a costume. Films […]
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October 10, 2021
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s The Return
There is more than one return in The Return, and each return orients the narrative in a different direction. Depending on who is returning and from […]
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October 10, 2021
Big Meat Eater, Not Bad For A Bad Movie
Once you have the grinder set up and a bucket in place shove Pee Wee Herman in there. Wait for the bowtie to be fully […]
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October 10, 2021
Lichtenstein & Camus At The Movies Volume 1
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October 10, 2021
Heritage And Identity In The Night of Counting the Years
As an American, I live in a place where almost nothing predates the 1600 hundreds. American history is above all short. Chicago, the city where […]
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October 10, 2021
Superzan And The Space Boy
Carmen and her father are going for stroll in the hills when they see a cheaply made flying saucer land in a field. A gold-colored […]
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October 9, 2021
Lichtenstein & Camus At The Movies Volume 3
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October 9, 2021
Giuseppe De Santis’s Bitter Rice
There is a tension between the everyday and the cinematic that runs through Giuseppe De Santis’s 1949 film Bitter Rice. The movie is set in a […]
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October 9, 2021
Lichtenstein & Camus At The Movies Volume 2
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October 9, 2021
The Strange Case Of Dr. Sex
Nudie Cutie movies are a very particular phenomenon. They existed for a short time in the mid-twentieth century and were designed to sell pornography without […]
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October 9, 2021
Jack Hill’s Spider Baby
Spider Baby was writer and director Jack Hill’s first film. He managed to pluck Lon Chaney out of alcoholic exile long enough to be his leading […]
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October 9, 2021
Objective Evaluation of Film: The Deadest of Dead Horses
I don’t want to write this essay, but there seems to be an inexhaustible well of interest and controversy when it comes to establishing objective […]
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October 9, 2021
Shot/Reverse Shot Madness In Bandhi Darwaza
Bandhi Darwaza is a two-and-half-hour, Bollywood, musical, vampire, movie. It’s campy and over the top but the vampire is actually pretty good. His makeup and movements […]
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October 9, 2021
Lichtenstein & Camus At The Movies Volume 4
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October 9, 2021
Álex de la Iglesia’s The Last Circus
The Last Circus is a rough ride. The pacing is fast, but what makes it truly disorienting is the sudden sharp turns. The plot and mood […]
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October 8, 2021
Lichtenstein & Camus At The Movies Volume 5
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October 8, 2021
Wonder Woman Shmunder Shmuman The Philippines Has Someone Better, Darna!
Fed up with giant, money-soaked, CGI cartoons? Bored by Hollywood’s pathetic attempt at feminism? Stupefied by the same old plot? The Philippines has a remedy […]
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October 7, 2021
The Unfulfilled Potential of The Wall
Julian Roman Polser’s 2013 film The Wall is frustrating. It has an interesting premise, a beautiful location and some very nice cinematography but it is all but […]
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October 7, 2021
The Value of Viy
Viy is unconventionally wonderful. As a horror film it isn’t scary, as a character portrait it is a little shallow, and as a morality play it […]
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October 7, 2021
A Comparison of The Turin Horse and The Naked Island
Kaneto Shindo released The Naked Island in 1960. A half century later later Bela Tarr released The Turin Horse. Both films have minimal dialogue. Both feature two people […]
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October 7, 2021
Vibrations — What If Bergman Made A Nudie Film?
Vibrations was written and directed by Joseph Sarno. During his 40 year career, Sarno directed 125 films, 75 of which he also wrote. In the 1960s […]
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October 7, 2021
Lichtenstein & Camus At The Movies Volume 6
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October 7, 2021
Godzilla vs. Hedora: Not Your Typical Kaiju Fare
Considering the iconic status Godzilla already had in the 1960s it would have been intimidating for any director to be tasked with making the next […]
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